I said I did not understand why Kursk was not being cleared of the enemy and why the enemy was able to still mount offensives at this stage.
To which came this reply:
you can tell that you don’t understand it! this war will end soon when the us withdraws from it. then the status quo regarding kursk will be reset anyway. thus, it is only about the destruction of the enemy, no longer about the gain of terrain!
To which I give this reply:
But this is not ‘gain of terrain’, this is ‘regain’.
( well in fact it is all ‘regain’ the Donbas Ukrainains will remind us but this is ‘original’ Russian territory in Kursk, not part of a victimised breakaway Ukrainian Oblast. Russian have a particular interest in this territory just as the Donbas Ukrainians who’re now Russians by their own choice had a particular interest in protecting their own land in Donbas from the Kiev invaders and thus fought ALONE for eight years.)
But nevertheless if the military were thinking along those lines why would they be pushing so hard in the Donbas? Attack always brings more peril, more losses and the Allied forces of Russia and Donbas are fully on attack there.
Why so if destroying the enemy were the priority?
Kiev can be relied upon to attack continually and can be destroyed then. Plus the longer they dig in and assemble today the more vulnerable they get rather than the more secure as in previous wars.
For now given enough time we will always discover their assembly area and hardened trenches, dugouts and bunkers. And the FAB bombs and fire bombs will deal with them at leisure.
Or could. That is the point. Could. Should. But not happening in Kursk apparently.
In fact the Donbas, seen as an urgent priority target in political terms could be seen as not an urgent target at all because it can be argued politically that the people should decide by referendum: as they already have, but do it again. And such a referendum could clearly demonstrate to the whole of the world that the WHOLE of Donetsk etc. goes to the Russian Federation.
Just the same as the easiest way to take Odessa is to make unavoidable a referendum and let the people there choose their independence and future federation with the Russian Federation.
And to suggest the US will withdraw looks somewhat naive. The USA is not a country it is a business. A pirate business. A criminal pirate business that makes massive profits from this war.
Why would they withdraw from it? Despite anything any politicians might say or do with their lying mouths they will continue to support their own profits. Why wouldn’t they?
Politicians saying US will not support Ukraine with money or materials any more, for instance, could simply mean all the support goes to the NATO countries and THEY are ‘seen’ to support Ukraine. But they are doing it really with American money and materials.
Lastly Putin and the soldiers themselves often declare the ‘enemy’ there is not really their enemy at all, but their brothers, which is true. So why would they be totally devoted to destroying their brothers? The Nazi battalions, yes, but the mass of Kiev Ukrainian people? I think no.